世界上收入水平最高的职业运动员是谁？哪项运动的高收入运动员最多？

优秀的职业运动员往往可以通过薪水、参加大赛获奖、代言品牌产品等方式赚取大量收入。你知道世界上收入最高的职业运动员是谁吗？他的职业又是哪一类运动？福布斯排行榜统计了世界上前80名高收入职业运动员的收入状况。
Great professional athletes can often earn a lot of money through salaries, winning competitions, endorsing branded products, and more. Do you know who the highest paid professional athlete in the world is? And what type of sport is his profession? The Forbes list tallies the earnings of the top 80 highest-paid professional athletes in the world.

第一张图中显示的是收入排行，前五名分别是老虎·伍兹（高尔夫），弗洛伊德·梅威瑟（拳击），勒布朗·詹姆斯（篮球），迈克尔·乔丹（篮球）和C罗（足球）。有趣的是，排名第一的老虎·伍兹的收入高出第二名很多，高达13.12亿美元。
The first chart shows the income ranking, the top five are Tiger Woods (golf), Floyd Mayweather (boxing), LeBron James (basketball), Michael Jordan (basketball) and C.Ronaldo (soccer). Interestingly, the top-ranked Tiger Woods earned a lot more than the second place, up to $1.312 billion.

然而更有趣的是，这80名高收入职业运动员按照运动类型分类后，收入最高的篮球，总和高达32亿美元。高尔夫运动总和为20亿美元，而伍兹一人的收入贡献就超过了一半。可见篮球运动在体坛收入方面才是毫无争议的第一。
What’s more interesting, however, is that when these 80 high-earning professional athletes are broken down by type of sport, basketball, the highest earner, totals a whopping $3.2 billion. Golf totals $2 billion, and Woods alone contributes more than half of that income. It is clear that basketball is the undisputed number one in terms of income in the sports world.

最后再来看看这些运动员所属国家的分布情况。美国运动员毫无疑问收入最高，其次集中在欧洲几个国家，以及以巴西、阿根廷为代表的南美地区，而亚洲仅有菲律宾一国上榜。
Finally, let’s take a look at the distribution of the countries to which these athletes belong. U.S. athletes undoubtedly have the highest income, followed by a few countries in Europe, as well as Brazil, Argentina as the representative of South America, while Asia has only the Philippines a country on the list.

数据可视化网址：
https://public.tableau.com/zh-cn/gallery/forbes-list-best-paid-athletes?tab=featured&topic=topic-sports-and-fitness